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Siitepöly by Charli Clark was created as a record of research, as a form of historical documentation of a honey sample made by honeybees at Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden. The book is now a form of historical documentation of the activities of those bees and identifies some of the plants they would have visited in summer 2013.

Clark’s practice works to expose, explore and reduce the human nature divide through looking at our relationships with our food and food producers, both human and non-human.

Bees, and particularly honeybees, are very much ingrained in both nature and culture, as wild and domesticated beings, instinctive and organised, and as producers within their own right of a substance highly valued by humans. Through exploring pollen we can start to unpick some of the secrets of the hive, and the highly diverse and complex relationships between bees and plants. This can give us further insight into the importance of diversity and the need to question our relationship with the honeybee and industrialised agriculture, to help create a stable system of not just healthy honeybees, but also others pollinators.